in just a few minutes, president obama will speak to the united nations general assembly. this morning his critics say he's not giving the u.n. enough attention this year because he wants to be re-elected. >> bill plante is at the u.n. where he's getting an early look at the president's speech. what can we expect to hear? >> reporter: good morning. the president, with when he speaks in just a few minutes, is going to say that the violence in the middle east over the last cup of weeks was an assault on the ideas on which the u.n. was founded. in the name of chris stevens, the u.s. ambassador who was killed in libya. he'll say the future has to be determined by people like chris stevens and not people like his killers. the video which prompted those attacks in the middle east, the video about muhammad, he'll say that nothing justifies those kinds of attacks. and on iran, he's going say that a nuclear-armed iran is a challenge that cannot be contained. charlie, norah. >> bill, why no one on one bilateral meetings between the president and world leaders? >> reporter: well, sim